Overview

This volume addresses the need for an introductory text on asynchronous circuit design. Part I is an 8-chapter tutorial which addresses the most important issues for the beginner, including how to think about asynchronous systems. Part II is a 4-chapter introduction to Balsa, a freely-available synthesis system for asynchronous circuits which will enable the reader to get hands-on experience of designing high-level asynchronous systems. Part III offers a number of examples of state-of-the-art asynchronous systems to illustrate what can be built using asynchronous techniques. The examples range from a complete commercial smart card chip to complex microprocessors. The objective in writing this book has been to enable industrial designers with a background in conventional (clocked) design to be able to understand asynchronous design sufficiently to assess what it has to offer and whether it might be advantageous in their next design task.

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Author:   Jens Sparsø ,  Steve Furber
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2002 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.520kg
ISBN:  

9780792376132

ISBN 10:   0792376137
Pages:   337
Publication Date:   31 December 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I Asynchronous circuit design — A tutorial.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Fundamentals.- 3 Static data-flow structures.- 4 Performance.- 5 Handshake circuit implementations.- 6 Speed-independent control circuits.- 7 Advanced 4-phase bundled-data protocols and circuits.- 8 High-level languages and tools.- II Balsa — An Asynchronous Hardware Synthesis System.- 9 An introduction to Balsa.- 10 The Balsa language.- 11 Building library components.- 12 A simple DMA controller.- III Large-Scale Asynchronous Designs.- 13 Descale.- 14 An Asynchronous Viterbi Decoder.- 15 Processors.- Epilogue.- References.

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